There’s that famous story about the Ramones where someone told them, ‘You guys are really negative-every song is “I don’t wanna…”’ So they wrote ‘Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue.’ Are you in an ‘I Wanna’ or ‘I Don’t Wanna’ phase now? I have a giant pile in my room at all times. I’m pretty good about not committing laundry. What about the other commandments? Dost thou not commit laundry? Is this something you’d already thought about? That’s an instantly detailed answer. If the Descendents knew how I felt about it, they’d agree with me. That’s their vision of adulthood as a negative thing. Adulthood is definitely defined by them as being forced into wearing a suit and a tie everyday, forced to do things you don’t necessarily wanna do and not living life for yourself. I’m not committing adulthood cuz the future that I see for myself isn’t the future the Descendents saw for adults, quote/unquote. Isn’t one of the rules in ‘Allogistics’ ‘thou shalt not commit adulthood’? Are you committing All heresy on this album? I always liked the Descendents, but when I actually learned what All is about, I was like, ‘Whoa.’ Even before I knew about All, that was a personal philosophy I was trying to strive for in my own life, from a formative way. I love their philosophy and all their songs and ideas. It’s for people who might listen to your music but are fans of that other music-you share your influences. All the artists I hold in the highest esteem utilized that, and understood it’s not bad.
It’s what I do.Įvery band I’ve ever loved has done that, too. It’s another nod to the Descendents-I love referential stuff anyway.
Maybe I don’t want that tattoo cuz I do wanna grow up. Like getting a mantra tattooed on your body forever? It’s like … but you are gonna grow up. I just remember thinking, ‘That could be a cool tattoo to get …’ but going back and forth and thinking about that concept. A lot of my friends have that and a lot of people in general in the world have that. I had been thinking about a Descendents tattoo a lot-the ‘I Don’t Wanna Grow Up’ with the baby logo. Did you have something like that for I Want To Grow Up? The Kinks’ album Village Green was originally just a bunch of unconnected songs, but then Ray Davies wrote ‘Village Green Preservation Society’ and realized he had a concept he could build an album on. It’s been part of me as far back as I can remember. We lived in a really small town so we’d always be in the car listening to the oldies station in Boston or classic rock. They’d always go to shows when they were dating in the 70s. My dad was a drummer and fancied himself a musician. I inherited from my mom and my grandmother. I always wanted to be a singer, my whole life.
I don’t really remember what they were, but I’d write lyrics on paper and keep them in a little pouch that I made. What first made you want to make music? And then what made you think could make music?Īs a baby, I’d write songs. As soon as he put it on, this other guy that worked at the club ran over to the sound booth like, ‘Hey! What’s going on with the music?’ I was like, ‘Don’t you touch that! You let it play!’ I was like, ‘Put Akon on as my entrance music or I’m not gonna play tonight!’ No, but I was like, ‘You have to play Akon!’ and I knew the sound guy so he put it on. There’s a story about the Pixies where the soundman started fading down the house music before they went on, but the song he was fading was the Stooges’ ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog.’ And Frank Black made him play the Stooges again from the beginning ‘out of respect for Iggy.’ What’s a song you’d force someone to play in its entirety out of respect for the artist?
I NEVER WANT TO GROW UP SONG HOW TO
She speaks now about group projects, going solo and how to make ‘fuck you!’ something hopeful. If the spirit of the Descendents is at work here, as it is in all Colleen’s works-although she shares her psyche with Akon now-then its in that irreducible sense of surface-street exhaustion, when you don’t know where to go or why you’re even going anywhere, anyway. “Deeper Than Love” and “Some People” are fearlessly powerfully honest, and the flat-affect voice Green uses so well makes them cut even deeper. (Naturally she’s instantly able to explain how this fits in with All’s command to “not commit adulthood.”) Backed by members of Diarrhea Planet and JEFF the Brotherhood, Grow Up is a dark and even harrowing album beneath the fuzz and the melody. It’s called I Want To Grow Up, both in reaction and homage to her beloved Descendents. that came out of that dog and the dry-ice wit of the Vaselines, whose “Sex Sux” could make for a great Colleen cover one day. Colleen Green’s newest album comes from the triangle between Deal sisters’ bad-assery, the nowheresville take on L.A.
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